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NOVEMBER 2024
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Best of Film Showcase
On Thursday, November 21 we wrapped up our 2024 Best of Film showcase with our final screening at Mason Exhibitions in Arlington. Following the screening, Professor Rebekah Wingert-Jabi moderated the Q&A.
Congratulations to all of our student and alumni filmmakers who presented their work.
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Spring 2025 Registration
Registration for Spring 2025 is now open to everyone. If you have questions or concerns regarding your schedule or course offerings, reach out to your Academic Advisor, Maddie Portnoy, at mportnoy@gmu.edu.
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Spring 2025 Course Spotlight
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FAVS 378 Web Series
Wednesdays, 1:30pm-4:10pm | IN 233
Professor Susan Kehoe
Web series have opened doors for a host of shows you see on TV. This writing and production class explores the creative and logistical challenges of creating a series for the web. Each student will write a 3–5-minute pilot script which will be sent to professional readers for evaluation. The top-scoring scripts will be made into pilots by production crews in our class. Required Prerequisites: FAVS 255 and FAVS 280
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FAVS 260 Video Editing for Film
Multiple sections offered
This course instructs students on the theories and technical expertise pertaining to video editing by using a range of video editing software. The course includes lectures, discussions, and demonstrations with hands-on projects.
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FAVS 331 Cinematography
Multiple sections offered
This course aims to recreate a professional camera department environment. By the end of the course, students should be able to understand and perform the function of first assistant cameraperson or second assistant cameraperson on a camera crew. Students will understand the history, function, art, craft, and science of cinematography.
Required Prerequisites: FAVS 204 and
FAVS 255
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FAVS 225 Introduction to World Cinema
Multiple Sections Offered
Open to all majors
This course explores examples of many kinds of films from around the world, including documentary, fiction, and experimental. Students will learn to analyze film language and structures, with attention to cinema's many contexts, including economic institutions, historical events, political and social issues that shape and are shaped by movies.
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FAVS 333 Sound Editing and Recording
Multiple Sections Offered
This course instructs students on the theories, techniques and technologies pertaining to recording audio in the field and studio and to audio editing and mixing for film and video. The course will be lecture based with practical lab and field exercises applying concepts and equipment presented during the lecture.
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Visiting Filmmakers Series
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Thank you to everyone who came to support our final Visiting Filmmakers Series screening of the Fall 2024 semester, Black Barbie: A Documentary, followed by an engaging Q&A discussion with Lagueria Davis, hosted by Jessica Kallista.
In addition, Lagueria Davis participated in a lunchtime discussion with students and an interview conducted by the Black Filmmakers Association. The interview and Q&A will be available soon to view. Stay tuned.
Thank you to everyone who attended this semester's programs and who continue to support the Visiting Filmmakers Series.
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The 2024 Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture
The 2024 Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture will be presented by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Mira Nair, followed by a special screening of her 1988 award-winning film Salaam Bombay!
Sunday, December 8, 2024 at 2:00 pm
East Building Auditorium, Washington, DC
Visit the National Gallery of Art website for more information and to register.
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The College 48 Hour Film Project
The College 48 Hour Film Project is a filmmaking competition where teams from all colleges across the United States will go head-to-head in a competition to write, shoot, and edit a film in 48 hours.
Competition Weekend: February 7-9, 2025
For more information visit the College 48 website.
Register here.
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Bethesda Film Fest
The Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District invites filmmakers from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C to submit recent, original work for the 13th annual Bethesda Film Fest, set for spring 2025.
Deadline: January 10, 2025
For more information, visit the website.
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Alumni and Student Spotlight
Mauricio Alarcon ‘24 is a recipient of a Capital Emmy Student Production Award in the Fiction- Long Form category for La Vida.
Douglas "Xavier" Jimenez, a FAVS student, was awarded a Capital Emmy Student Production Award in the Commercial category for Media Production Program: Behind the Scenes.
The National Student Production Awards recognizes outstanding achievement in video production.
The award announcements can be viewed here.
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Alumni Accomplishment
Kwanza Gooden ‘13 was awarded the College of Visual and Performing Arts’ Thomas W. Iszard IV Distinguished Alumni Award at the Celebration of Distinction.
The Celebration of Distinction is the longest running alumni recognition event at George Mason and is one of the premier GMUAA functions.
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Professor Samirah Alkassim participated in a Round Table at UT-Dallas' “Global Symposium of Cinema: Engaging Cinema Cultures: Discourses and Disruptions,” discussing “world cinema” as pedagogy and a field of critical study. Read more about the Symposium here: https://filmstudies.utdallas.edu/gcs/
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Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit, for which Professor Alkassim served as translation editor in the series she co-edits (Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema), won the Oral History Award at the Palestine Book Awards ceremony in London on November 8th. You can read more about the book here.
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Professor G Chesler premiered the documentary, Outliers and Outlaws at the QDOC Film Festival, the only festival solely devoted to LGBTQIA+ documentaries in the world. Professor Chesler is the Producer of Impact, Marketing and Distribution for Outliers and Outlaws. The film tells the little-known story of the migration of hundreds of lesbians to Eugene, Oregon during the 1960s, through the 1980s. Building a new model of communal living and freedom, this community changed LGBTQIA+ history. Watch the trailer and read about the film here.
Outliers and Outlaws includes the Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project, a digital exhibit. This film, directed by Courtney Hermann, began as an archival project by producer and scholar Judith Raiskin, who amassed 84 oral history interviews and material items from the era. FAVS students and marketing researchers funded by OSCAR, Chrys Sotos and Meghan Colovos, have been essential to the work of promoting this film and the digital exhibit.
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Professor Chesler released the trailer for their film Connection | Isolation.
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Professor Nikyatu Jusu is developing The Fly, a new film based on David Cronenberg’s body horror masterwork, which she is writing and will direct for 20th Century Studios and Chernin Entertainment. Read more here.
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Film Opportunities and Resources
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